diff --git a/docs/design/workspace-keymap.md b/docs/design/workspace-keymap.md
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+# Workspace keymap (#335)
+
+Part of the workspace program ([#330](https://github.com/raiseCatError/notMyShell/issues/330)); shared foundation and integration contract: [workspace.md](workspace.md).
+
+A person's keymap is declarative data, validated before use, and never executed:
+
+```json
+{"version": 1,
+ "bind": [{"key": "Left", "context": "composerEmpty", "action": "sidebar.focus", "replaces": true}],
+ "unbind": [{"key": "q", "context": "panel"}]}
+```
+
+- **Bindable keys** are only those NMSh's input parser tells apart: `Up Down Left Right Home End PageUp PageDown Tab
+  Shift+Tab Esc Enter Backspace Ctrl+O Ctrl+F Ctrl+G Ctrl+N Ctrl+P Ctrl+R Ctrl+X F1` and single printable characters.
+  Anything else (`Ctrl+B`, `Cmd+K`, `Alt+Left`) is refused with the reason: the terminal may send it as something
+  else or not at all.
+- **Never bindable**: Ctrl+C/D/Z (job control), paste, pointer and focus events; in the composer also typing and
+  Enter.
+- **Composer bindings replace a meaning**, and must say so. Every bindable key already does something with an empty
+  draft (Left opens Sessions, Right accepts the inline suggestion, Up recalls history, Tab completes, Shift+Tab moves
+  through blocks, …, recorded in `COMPOSER_MEANINGS` from the composer's dispatch); a binding there needs
+  `"replaces": true`, and an active draft still wins.
+- **Actions per context**: the composer takes only focus/visibility actions; regions take their own actions plus
+  focus actions.
+- **Conflicts** (one key twice in a context) are errors, the first binding kept. Invalid entries are skipped and
+  reported; the defaults stand where an entry failed.
+- **Unreachable features are reported**: an action left with no key and no command, or a sidebar with no way back to
+  the composer, is a warning (the slash commands still work).
+- **Host notes** (`hostNotes`) say when a key usually never reaches NMSh: Terminal.app scrolls its own window on Page
+  Up/Down and Home/End, macOS may take F1, a tmux root-table binding (`bind -n`) takes the key first, and Esc waits
+  for tmux's `escape-time`. These are notes, never delivery guarantees.
+- `describeKeymap` lists every binding in effect and the commands that always work. Problem messages never echo the
+  file's text raw: a field name is shown only after escape sequences and controls are removed.
+- **Shared composer keys.** The background task bar (#384) also uses Up from an idle composer, and Shift+Up, which is
+  not bindable here. When the bar is wired, `COMPOSER_MEANINGS.up` must name it ("recalls history, or focuses a shown
+  agent shelf or task bar"), so a `"replaces": true` binding on Up says what it takes away.
+
+Integration: the keymap file lives beside NMSh's other configuration (`keymap.json` in the config directory), is read
+at start and on `/keys reload`, and `/keys` shows `describeKeymap` plus problems and host notes. Those commands are
+part of the integration step.
diff --git a/src/workspace/keymapConfig.ts b/src/workspace/keymapConfig.ts
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+import type {Key} from '../terminal/keys.js';
+import {resourceText} from './resources.js';
+import {chordLabel, DEFAULT_BINDINGS, WORKSPACE_ACTIONS, type Binding, type KeyChord, type KeymapContext, type WorkspaceActionId} from './keymap.js';
+
+/**
+ * A person's workspace keymap (#335): declarative data, validated before it
+ * is used. Entries bind a named key to a semantic action in a context, or
+ * unbind a default. Nothing in a keymap is executed.
+ *
+ *   {"version": 1,
+ *    "bind": [{"key": "Left", "context": "composerEmpty", "action": "sidebar.focus", "replaces": true}],
+ *    "unbind": [{"key": "q", "context": "panel"}]}
+ *
+ * Validation is honest about what NMSh can do:
+ * - only keys NMSh's input parser can tell apart are bindable; others are
+ *   refused with the reason (the terminal or OS may never send them);
+ * - job control, paste and pointer events are never bindable, and in the
+ *   composer neither are typing or Enter;
+ * - a composer binding that would replace an existing meaning (Left with an
+ *   empty draft opens Sessions) needs `"replaces": true`, so nothing is
+ *   shadowed by accident;
+ * - two bindings for one key in one context are a conflict, not "last wins";
+ * - host notes say when a terminal or tmux usually consumes the key first.
+ */
+
+export const KEYMAP_VERSION = 1;
+export const MAX_KEYMAP_ENTRIES = 128;
+
+/** Named keys the parser reports as distinct kinds. Printable characters are bound by themselves (`/`, `q`). */
+export const KEY_NAMES: Readonly<Record<string, KeyChord>> = {
+  'Up': {kind: 'up'}, 'Down': {kind: 'down'}, 'Left': {kind: 'left'}, 'Right': {kind: 'right'},
+  'Home': {kind: 'bufferHome'}, 'End': {kind: 'bufferEnd'}, 'PageUp': {kind: 'pageUp'}, 'PageDown': {kind: 'pageDown'},
+  'Tab': {kind: 'complete'}, 'Shift+Tab': {kind: 'focusPrevious'}, 'Esc': {kind: 'escape'}, 'Enter': {kind: 'enter'},
+  'Backspace': {kind: 'backspace'}, 'Ctrl+O': {kind: 'toggleDetails'}, 'Ctrl+F': {kind: 'find'}, 'Ctrl+G': {kind: 'latest'},
+  'Ctrl+N': {kind: 'suggestNext'}, 'Ctrl+P': {kind: 'suggestPrevious'}, 'Ctrl+R': {kind: 'historySearch'}, 'Ctrl+X': {kind: 'historyDelete'},
+  'F1': {kind: 'palette'},
+};
+
+/** Never bindable: they belong to the shell, job control, the clipboard or the pointer. */
+const RESERVED: ReadonlySet<Key['kind']> = new Set(['interrupt', 'eof', 'suspend', 'paste', 'mouseMove', 'mouseClick', 'mouseDrag', 'mouseRelease',
+  'wheelUp', 'wheelDown', 'focusIn', 'focusOut']);
+
+/** What a key already does in the shell composer with an empty draft (TerminalApp's composer dispatch). */
+export const COMPOSER_MEANINGS: Readonly<Partial<Record<Key['kind'], string>>> = {
+  left: 'opens the Sessions view', right: 'accepts the inline suggestion', up: 'recalls history (or focuses a shown agent shelf)',
+  down: 'reveals the agent shelf', complete: 'completes', focusPrevious: 'moves through transcript blocks', toggleDetails: 'toggles details',
+  find: 'finds in the transcript', historySearch: 'searches history', historyDelete: 'deletes a history entry', latest: 'jumps to the newest output',
+  pageUp: 'scrolls the transcript', pageDown: 'scrolls the transcript', bufferHome: 'moves to the start of the draft', bufferEnd: 'accepts the inline suggestion',
+  escape: 'dismisses menus and suggestions', suggestNext: 'moves through suggestions', suggestPrevious: 'moves through suggestions',
+  palette: 'opens the command palette', backspace: 'edits the draft',
+};
+
+const FOCUS_ACTIONS: ReadonlySet<WorkspaceActionId> = new Set(['sidebar.toggle', 'sidebar.focus', 'panel.toggle', 'panel.focus', 'focus.return', 'focus.cycle']);
+
+function actionAllowed(action: WorkspaceActionId, context: KeymapContext): boolean {
+  if (FOCUS_ACTIONS.has(action)) return context !== 'composerEmpty' || action !== 'focus.return';
+  return context === 'sidebar' ? action.startsWith('sidebar.') : context === 'panel' ? action.startsWith('panel.') : false;
+}
+
+export function parseKeyName(name: string): KeyChord | {error: string} {
+  if (typeof name !== 'string' || !name || name.length > 32) return {error: 'a key name is required'};
+  if (Object.hasOwn(KEY_NAMES, name)) return KEY_NAMES[name]!;
+  const characters = Array.from(name);
+  if (characters.length === 1 && /^[\p{L}\p{N}\p{P}\p{S}]$/u.test(name)) return {kind: 'text', text: name};
+  return {error: `${name} is not a key NMSh can tell apart (the terminal may send it as something else, or not at all); use one of ${Object.keys(KEY_NAMES).join(', ')} or a single printable character`};
+}
+
+export interface KeymapProblem {severity: 'error' | 'warning'; entry?: number; message: string}
+
+export interface KeymapResult {bindings: Binding[]; problems: KeymapProblem[]}
+
+const sameChord = (a: KeyChord, b: KeyChord) => a.kind === b.kind && a.text === b.text;
+const CONTEXTS: readonly KeymapContext[] = ['composerEmpty', 'sidebar', 'panel'];
+
+/**
+ * The bindings in effect: defaults, minus valid `unbind` entries, plus valid `bind` entries. Invalid entries are
+ * reported and skipped; a keymap with errors still yields a usable table (the defaults stand where it failed).
+ */
+export function applyKeymap(input: unknown, defaults: readonly Binding[] = DEFAULT_BINDINGS): KeymapResult {
+  const problems: KeymapProblem[] = [];
+  let bindings = [...defaults];
+  if (input === undefined) return {bindings, problems};
+  if (typeof input !== 'object' || input === null || Array.isArray(input)) return {bindings, problems: [{severity: 'error', message: 'the keymap must be an object'}]};
+  const data = input as Record<string, unknown>;
+  // A field name is the file's text, shown by /keys: displayable only after escape sequences and controls are removed.
+  for (const key of Object.keys(data)) if (!['version', 'bind', 'unbind'].includes(key)) problems.push({severity: 'error', message: `unknown field "${resourceText(key, 32)}"`});
+  if (data.version !== KEYMAP_VERSION) return {bindings, problems: [...problems, {severity: 'error', message: `unsupported keymap version; expected ${KEYMAP_VERSION}`}]};
+  const list = (value: unknown, name: string): Record<string, unknown>[] => {
+    if (value === undefined) return [];
+    if (!Array.isArray(value)) { problems.push({severity: 'error', message: `"${name}" must be a list`}); return []; }
+    if (value.length > MAX_KEYMAP_ENTRIES) problems.push({severity: 'error', message: `"${name}" has more than ${MAX_KEYMAP_ENTRIES} entries; the rest are ignored`});
+    return value.slice(0, MAX_KEYMAP_ENTRIES).map(item => (typeof item === 'object' && item !== null && !Array.isArray(item) ? item as Record<string, unknown> : {}));
+  };
+  const context = (value: unknown, entry: number): KeymapContext | undefined => {
+    if (CONTEXTS.includes(value as KeymapContext)) return value as KeymapContext;
+    problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: `context must be one of ${CONTEXTS.join(', ')}`});
+    return undefined;
+  };
+
+  list(data.unbind, 'unbind').forEach((item, entry) => {
+    const where = context(item.context, entry);
+    const chord = parseKeyName(item.key as string);
+    if (!where) return;
+    if ('error' in chord) { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: chord.error}); return; }
+    const before = bindings.length;
+    bindings = bindings.filter(binding => !(binding.context === where && sameChord(binding.key, chord)));
+    if (bindings.length === before) problems.push({severity: 'warning', entry, message: `${chordLabel(chord)} is not bound in ${where}`});
+  });
+
+  const added: Binding[] = [];
+  list(data.bind, 'bind').forEach((item, entry) => {
+    const where = context(item.context, entry);
+    if (!where) return;
+    const chord = parseKeyName(item.key as string);
+    if ('error' in chord) { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: chord.error}); return; }
+    const action = item.action as WorkspaceActionId;
+    if (typeof action !== 'string' || !Object.hasOwn(WORKSPACE_ACTIONS, action)) { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: 'unknown action'}); return; }
+    if (!actionAllowed(action, where)) { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: `${action} does not apply in ${where}`}); return; }
+    if (RESERVED.has(chord.kind)) { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: `${chordLabel(chord)} belongs to the shell and is never bound`}); return; }
+    if (where === 'composerEmpty') {
+      if (chord.kind === 'text' || chord.kind === 'enter') { problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: 'typing and Enter always reach the shell'}); return; }
+      const meaning = COMPOSER_MEANINGS[chord.kind];
+      if (meaning && item.replaces !== true) {
+        problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: `${String(item.key)} with an empty draft ${meaning}; add "replaces": true to use it for ${action} instead`});
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    if (added.some(binding => binding.context === where && sameChord(binding.key, chord))) {
+      problems.push({severity: 'error', entry, message: `${chordLabel(chord)} is bound twice in ${where}; the first binding is kept`});
+      return;
+    }
+    bindings = bindings.filter(binding => !(binding.context === where && sameChord(binding.key, chord)));
+    const binding: Binding = {action, context: where, key: chord};
+    bindings.push(binding); added.push(binding);
+  });
+
+  // A region action with no key and no command is unreachable: say so rather than leave a dead feature.
+  for (const [action, info] of Object.entries(WORKSPACE_ACTIONS) as Array<[WorkspaceActionId, {label: string; command?: string}]>) {
+    if (info.command || FOCUS_ACTIONS.has(action)) continue;
+    if (!bindings.some(binding => binding.action === action)) problems.push({severity: 'warning', message: `nothing triggers ${action} (${info.label}) now`});
+  }
+  if (!bindings.some(binding => binding.action === 'focus.return' && binding.context === 'sidebar')) problems.push({severity: 'warning', message: 'no key returns from the sidebar to the composer; /sidebar still closes it'});
+  return {bindings, problems};
+}
+
+export interface HostProfile {
+  host: 'ghostty' | 'apple-terminal' | 'other';
+  /** Running inside tmux; `tmuxRootKeys` are the user's root-table keys (`bind -n`), in tmux's own names. */
+  tmux: boolean;
+  tmuxRootKeys?: ReadonlySet<string>;
+  /** The terminal reports keys with the Kitty keyboard protocol (Ghostty does). */
+  kittyKeyboard?: boolean;
+}
+
+const TMUX_NAMES: Partial<Record<Key['kind'], string>> = {
+  up: 'Up', down: 'Down', left: 'Left', right: 'Right', bufferHome: 'Home', bufferEnd: 'End', pageUp: 'PPage', pageDown: 'NPage',
+  complete: 'Tab', focusPrevious: 'BTab', escape: 'Escape', enter: 'Enter', backspace: 'BSpace', toggleDetails: 'C-o', find: 'C-f', latest: 'C-g',
+  suggestNext: 'C-n', suggestPrevious: 'C-p', historySearch: 'C-r', historyDelete: 'C-x', palette: 'F1',
+};
+
+/**
+ * Known reasons a key may never reach NMSh in this host. These are notes, not guarantees in either direction: the
+ * terminal, the OS and tmux decide, and the slash command remains the reliable path.
+ */
+export function hostNotes(chord: KeyChord, profile: HostProfile): string[] {
+  const notes: string[] = [];
+  if (profile.host === 'apple-terminal' && (chord.kind === 'pageUp' || chord.kind === 'pageDown')) {
+    notes.push('Terminal.app scrolls its own window on Page Up/Down; Shift+Page Up/Down reaches NMSh');
+  }
+  if (profile.host === 'apple-terminal' && chord.kind === 'bufferHome') notes.push('Terminal.app scrolls its own window on Home/End unless they are remapped in its keyboard settings');
+  if (chord.kind === 'palette' && profile.host === 'apple-terminal') notes.push('macOS may take F1 for brightness unless "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" is on');
+  if (profile.tmux) {
+    const name = chord.kind === 'text' ? chord.text : TMUX_NAMES[chord.kind];
+    if (name && profile.tmuxRootKeys?.has(name)) notes.push(`your tmux configuration binds ${name} in its root table, so tmux takes it before NMSh`);
+    if (chord.kind === 'escape') notes.push("inside tmux, Esc waits for tmux's escape-time before reaching NMSh");
+  }
+  return notes;
+}
+
+/** The keymap as help: every binding in effect per context, plus the commands that work regardless of keys. */
+export function describeKeymap(bindings: readonly Binding[]): string[] {
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+  for (const context of CONTEXTS) {
+    const rows = bindings.filter(binding => binding.context === context);
+    lines.push(`${context === 'composerEmpty' ? 'Composer (empty draft)' : context === 'sidebar' ? 'Sidebar' : 'Detail panel'}${rows.length ? '' : ': no keys'}`);
+    for (const binding of rows) lines.push(`  ${chordLabel(binding.key).padEnd(10)} ${WORKSPACE_ACTIONS[binding.action].label}`);
+  }
+  lines.push('Commands');
+  for (const info of Object.values(WORKSPACE_ACTIONS)) if (info.command) lines.push(`  ${info.command.padEnd(15)} ${info.label}`);
+  return lines;
+}
diff --git a/tests/workspaceKeymap.test.ts b/tests/workspaceKeymap.test.ts
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+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import {applyKeymap, COMPOSER_MEANINGS, describeKeymap, hostNotes, KEY_NAMES, parseKeyName} from '../src/workspace/keymapConfig.js';
+import {DEFAULT_BINDINGS, resolveBinding, WORKSPACE_ACTIONS} from '../src/workspace/keymap.js';
+import {routeWorkspaceKey} from '../src/workspace/focus.js';
+import type {Key} from '../src/terminal/keys.js';
+
+const errors = (result: ReturnType<typeof applyKeymap>) => result.problems.filter(problem => problem.severity === 'error').map(problem => problem.message);
+
+test('key names: only keys the parser tells apart; anything else is refused with the reason', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(parseKeyName('Shift+Tab'), {kind: 'focusPrevious'});
+  assert.deepEqual(parseKeyName('/'), {kind: 'text', text: '/'});
+  assert.deepEqual(parseKeyName('é'), {kind: 'text', text: 'é'});
+  for (const name of ['Ctrl+B', 'Cmd+K', 'Alt+Left', 'ab', '', '\u001b', ' ']) assert.ok('error' in parseKeyName(name), name);
+  assert.match((parseKeyName('Ctrl+B') as {error: string}).error, /not a key NMSh can tell apart/u);
+  // Every named key has a composer meaning documented or is otherwise accounted for, so validation can explain it.
+  for (const [name, chord] of Object.entries(KEY_NAMES)) if (name !== 'Enter') assert.ok(COMPOSER_MEANINGS[chord.kind], `${name} has a documented composer meaning`);
+});
+
+test('no keymap, the defaults; a valid keymap rebinds and unbinds', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(applyKeymap(undefined), {bindings: [...DEFAULT_BINDINGS], problems: []});
+  const result = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [{key: 'x', context: 'panel', action: 'panel.close'}], unbind: [{key: 'q', context: 'panel'}]});
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(result), []);
+  assert.equal(resolveBinding(result.bindings, 'panel', {kind: 'text', value: 'x'} as Key), 'panel.close');
+  assert.equal(resolveBinding(result.bindings, 'panel', {kind: 'text', value: 'q'} as Key), undefined);
+  // Rebinding a key in a region replaces the default for that key only.
+  const swapped = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [{key: 'Right', context: 'sidebar', action: 'sidebar.activate'}]});
+  assert.equal(resolveBinding(swapped.bindings, 'sidebar', {kind: 'right'} as Key), 'sidebar.activate');
+  assert.equal(resolveBinding(swapped.bindings, 'sidebar', {kind: 'enter'} as Key), 'sidebar.activate');
+});
+
+test('composer bindings: typing, Enter and job control are never taken; replacing a meaning must be explicit', () => {
+  const refused = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [
+    {key: 'Left', context: 'composerEmpty', action: 'sidebar.focus'},
+    {key: 'p', context: 'composerEmpty', action: 'panel.toggle'},
+    {key: 'Enter', context: 'composerEmpty', action: 'panel.toggle'},
+    {key: 'Down', context: 'composerEmpty', action: 'sidebar.down'},
+  ]});
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(refused), [
+    'Left with an empty draft opens the Sessions view; add "replaces": true to use it for sidebar.focus instead',
+    'typing and Enter always reach the shell',
+    'typing and Enter always reach the shell',
+    'sidebar.down does not apply in composerEmpty',
+  ]);
+  assert.equal(refused.bindings.filter(binding => binding.context === 'composerEmpty').length, 0, 'refused entries change nothing');
+  const accepted = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [{key: 'Left', context: 'composerEmpty', action: 'sidebar.focus', replaces: true}]});
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(accepted), []);
+  const context = {owner: 'COMPOSER' as const, composerEmpty: true, sidebarOpen: false, panelOpen: false, bindings: accepted.bindings};
+  assert.equal(routeWorkspaceKey({kind: 'left'} as Key, context), 'sidebar.focus');
+  assert.equal(routeWorkspaceKey({kind: 'left'} as Key, {...context, composerEmpty: false}), undefined, 'a draft still wins');
+});
+
+test('conflicts and malformed keymaps are reported; the defaults stand where an entry fails', () => {
+  const conflict = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [{key: 'j', context: 'sidebar', action: 'sidebar.down'}, {key: 'j', context: 'sidebar', action: 'sidebar.up'}]});
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(conflict), ['j is bound twice in sidebar; the first binding is kept']);
+  assert.equal(resolveBinding(conflict.bindings, 'sidebar', {kind: 'text', value: 'j'} as Key), 'sidebar.down');
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(applyKeymap({version: 2})), ['unsupported keymap version; expected 1']);
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(applyKeymap([])), ['the keymap must be an object']);
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: {}, extra: 1})), ['unknown field "extra"', '"bind" must be a list']);
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(applyKeymap({version: 1, '\u001b]0;PWNED\u0007\u001b[2Jx': 1})), ['unknown field "x"'], 'a field name from the file is shown as text only');
+  assert.deepEqual(errors(applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: [{key: 'x', context: 'sidebar', action: 'shell.exec'}, {key: 'x', context: 'nowhere', action: 'panel.close'}]})),
+    ['unknown action', 'context must be one of composerEmpty, sidebar, panel']);
+  const many = applyKeymap({version: 1, bind: Array.from({length: 500}, () => ({key: 'z', context: 'panel', action: 'panel.close'}))});
+  assert.ok(errors(many).includes('"bind" has more than 128 entries; the rest are ignored'));
+  // Unbinding the only way back from the sidebar leaves a warning, not a silent trap.
+  const trapped = applyKeymap({version: 1, unbind: [{key: 'Esc', context: 'sidebar'}, {key: 'Enter', context: 'sidebar'}]});
+  const warnings = trapped.problems.filter(problem => problem.severity === 'warning').map(problem => problem.message);
+  assert.ok(warnings.includes('no key returns from the sidebar to the composer; /sidebar still closes it'));
+  assert.ok(warnings.includes(`nothing triggers sidebar.activate (${WORKSPACE_ACTIONS['sidebar.activate'].label}) now`));
+  assert.deepEqual(applyKeymap({version: 1, unbind: [{key: 'k', context: 'panel'}]}).problems[0], {severity: 'warning', entry: 0, message: 'k is not bound in panel'});
+});
+
+test('host notes are specific and never claim delivery', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(hostNotes({kind: 'pageDown'}, {host: 'apple-terminal', tmux: false}), ['Terminal.app scrolls its own window on Page Up/Down; Shift+Page Up/Down reaches NMSh']);
+  assert.deepEqual(hostNotes({kind: 'pageDown'}, {host: 'ghostty', tmux: false}), []);
+  assert.deepEqual(hostNotes({kind: 'left'}, {host: 'ghostty', tmux: true, tmuxRootKeys: new Set(['Left', 'M-Up'])}), ['your tmux configuration binds Left in its root table, so tmux takes it before NMSh']);
+  assert.match(hostNotes({kind: 'escape'}, {host: 'other', tmux: true}).join(), /escape-time/u);
+});
+
+test('help lists every binding in effect and the commands that always work', () => {
+  const lines = describeKeymap(DEFAULT_BINDINGS);
+  assert.equal(lines[0], 'Composer (empty draft): no keys');
+  assert.ok(lines.includes('  Enter      open'));
+  assert.ok(lines.includes('  /sidebar        show or hide the sidebar'));
+  assert.ok(lines.includes('  /panel focus    focus the detail panel'));
+});